[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] On Thursday, thousands of people in Colorado received messages to evacuate immediately, as wildfires propelled by strong winds destroyed the Boulder suburbs of Louisville and Superior.The first fire, the Middle Fork Fire, popped up in the area around 10:30am, but was "attacked pretty quickly and laid down later in the day" with no structures lost, Boulder County Sheriff Joe Pelle told the News Agency that Dare Not be Named.
A second fire, the Marshall Fire, was reported around 11am, which quickly ballooned in size, covering at least 2.5 square miles.
Authorities say several of the fires may have been started by downed power lines, with winds gusting as high as 105 mph.
"This is the kind of fire we can't fight head-on," Pelle said. "We actually had deputy sheriffs and firefighters in areas that had to pull out because they just got overrun."